Migrating mail from Tiger to Mavericks

I was getting ready to use Migration Assistant to migrate from a PowerPC G4 with OSX Tiger (10.4.11) to an iMac with Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.8) when a pop-up came on the screen for a free update to Mavericks (OSX 10.9). Without thinking of the ramifications of doing this, I ran the update. Now I find out that Migration Assistant in Mavericks is not compatible with Migration Assistant in Tiger. Also, I did not turn on the Time Machine so cannot revert back to Snow Leopard.
Since I cannot use Migration Assistant, how do I migrate the Tiger mail into Mavericks? I tried importing mailbox from within Mavericks and it imports but does not look right.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Start with http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889. You could wipe the iMac, reinstall SL, update it, and then migrate from the G4.

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<FolderMappings xmlns="http://tempuri.org/FolderMap.xsd">



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<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
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<Folder path = "New Mail">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
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<Folder path = "[Root]">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
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<Folder path = "">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
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<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
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<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
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<Folder path = "Sent">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
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<Property SpecialFolder = "Deleted Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Trash">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Deleted Items"/>
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<Folder path = "Drafts">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Drafts"/>
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<Folder path = "Draft">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Drafts"/>
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<Property ExcludeFolder = "true"/>
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<Folder path = "All Mail">
<Property ExcludeFolder = "true"/>
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<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Spam">
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